To the Citizens of this Great City and County,
Five of our Mobile City Council assumed the leadership role (I am proud of them) required to pass an ordinance to authorize a small number of highly regulated medical cannabis dispensaries in Mobile as organic, safe and effective alternative medications for 17 legally designated diseases.
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